Category Archives: Mobile bookmarklet tool

Project Workpackage 3: Mobile bookmarklet tool to help mobile users to connect to mobile
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Lessons Learnt

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Keren Mills

Mobile Discovery This project reinforced that developing for mobile devices is complex because of the wide range of operating systems, browsers, screen resolution and processing power that are in common use at present. We also learnt that our users do … Continue reading →

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Approaches to improving mobile authentication

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Keren Mills

One of the aims of the MACON project was to develop a bookmarklet that would allow users to authenticate securely without having to enter their full Open University password every time they wanted to access a mobile e-resource. OU students … Continue reading →

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Developing simpler authentication for mobile users

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Keren Mills

One of the deliverables of this project is a “mobile bookmarklet tool”, which is intended to help address the difficulty of entering a complex password into a mobile keyboard. The difficulties encountered tend to be with accessing special characters and … Continue reading →

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